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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Basic Books (edition 1), 2008

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2000

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    Serie: Buch 1 von 2 - The History of NYC

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Basic Books, 2010

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    Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons,more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed,those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence,and how much we have forgotten. …

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Basic Books (edition Reprint), 2010

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

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    Serie: Buch 1 von 2 - The History of NYC

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  • Sprache: Englisch

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000

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    Serie: Buch 1 von 2 - The History of NYC

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press (edition 1), 1998

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press (edition 1), 1998

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    Serie: Buch 1 von 2 - The History of NYC

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998

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    Serie: Buch 1 von 2 - The History of NYC

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press (edition First Edition), 2000

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Basic Books, 2008

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press (edition 1), 1998

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press (edition First Edition), 2000

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press (edition 1), 1998

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Perseus Books Group, 2010

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Basic Books, 2008

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 364 pp. with bibliography, index. During the Revolutionary War, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown; just over 6,800 of those men died in battle but more than four times that number---as many as 32,000 soldiers, seamen and civilians---became prisoners of war. As the principal base of Britain's military operations, New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution. This work tells the story of the American captives stuffed into a hasty assemblage of public buildings, sugar houses, and priosn ships where the priosners were shockingly overcrowded and underfed---some so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. The POWs perished by the thousands. Pulitzer prize-winning author Edwin Burrowsshows that as many as 18,000 Americans may have died as prisoners, the vast majority in New York.…

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    Softcover. Gr.8°. Softcover. Pages 379 - 501 of the running year/volume. Some traces of use. Good copy. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Genießen Sie den goldenen Herbst! Machen Sie es sich gemütlich , bei uns finden Sie sicher die passende Lektüre! -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! Reli. …

  • Verlag: W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia And London, 1942

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. A Good+ edition that has a name written on the front flyleaf and the title page, a starting spine hinge and some soiling and edgewear to the boards; The textbook of bacteriology by Jordan and Burrows covers all aspects of bacterial physiology and biochemistry with a focus on the microbial diseases that affect humans. It is a comprehensive resource that can help students understand how bacteria cause disease and the steps that scientists take to prevent and treat these illnesses.; 8vo; 731 pages.…

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1998

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Oxford University Press, 1998. Quarto. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

  • Verlag: NY: Oxford University Press, 2018, 2018

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    First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 12mo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; xvi, 248 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very good in a very good dust jacket.

  • Verlag: NY: Basic Books, 2008, 2008

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    First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; paper backed boards, hardcover; xii, 364 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; very good in a very good dust jacket.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1999

    0195116348 / 9780195116342

    Serie: Buch 1 von 2 - The History of NYC

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. The History Of NYC Series; 10 X 2.6 X 7.6 inches; 1383 pages; B&W illustrations. A couple of very tiny tears on DJ. DJ's front flap is a bit curled due to being used as a bookmark. Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings. Unclipped DJ; no price printed on front flap.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000

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    Serie: Buch 1 von 2 - The History of NYC

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    Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. The format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. xxiv, 1383, [13] pages. Maps. Illustrations. References. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. The cover has some wear and soiling. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize printed into the cover. Edwin Gwynne "Ted" Burrows (May 15, 1943 May 4, 2018) was a Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College. He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998), and author of Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, (2008), which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award. Burrows received his BA from the University of Michigan in 1964, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1973, where he studied under Eric McKitrick. The same year, he began teaching at Brooklyn College, where his course on the History of New York City was one of the college's most popular offerings. Mike Wallace (born July 22, 1942) is an American historian. He specializes in the history of New York City, and in the history and practice of "public history". In 1998 he co-authored Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, which in 1999 won the Pulitzer Prize in History. In 2017, he published a successor volume, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919. Wallace is a Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York), and at the CUNY Graduate Center. To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands--the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city. The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found. …